Yarn vs. Thread — What's the Difference?

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, or ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine.

Fine cord of a fibrous material, such as cotton or flax, made of two or more filaments twisted together and used in needlework and the weaving of cloth.

A continuous strand of twisted threads of natural or synthetic fibers, such as wool or nylon, used in weaving or knitting.

A piece of such cord.

A similar strand of other materials such as glass or plastic.

A thin strand, cord, or filament of natural or manufactured material.

(Informal) A long, often elaborate narrative of real or fictitious adventures; an entertaining tale.

Something that suggests the fineness or thinness of such a strand, cord, or filament

To tell an entertaining tale or series of tales.

Something that suggests the continuousness of such a strand, cord, or filament

(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.

A helical or spiral ridge on a screw, nut, or bolt.

(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.

A portion of a program that can run independently of and concurrently with other portions of the program.

(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

A set of posts on a newsgroup, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it.

To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.

Threads(Slang)Clothes.

Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.

To pass one end of a thread through the eye of (a needle, for example).

One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.

To pass (something) through in the manner of a thread

A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

To pass a tape or film into or through (a device)

The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;

To pass (a tape or film) into or through a device.

A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

To connect by running a thread through; string

Tell or spin a yarn

(Sports) To throw or send (a pass) through a heavily defended area to a teammate.

To make one's way cautiously through

To make (one's way) cautiously through something.

To occur here and there throughout; pervade

To machine a thread on (a screw, nut, or bolt).

To remove (body hair) by using a looped thread that has been wound tightly in the middle.

To make one's way cautiously

To proceed by a winding course.

To form a thread when dropped from a spoon, as boiling sugar syrup.

A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.

A continued theme or idea.

(engineering) A screw thread.

A sequence of connections.

The line midway between the banks of a stream.

(computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

(Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.

A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.

(figurative) Composition; quality; fineness.

(transitive) To put thread through.

(transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).

To screw on; to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.

(transitive) To remove the hair using a thread.

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted; also, one fiber of a cord composed of multiple fibers.

A filament of any substance, as of glass, gold or silver; a filamentous part of an object, such as a flower; a component fiber of any or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.

Something continued in a long course or tenor; a recurrent theme or related sequence of events in a larger story; as the thread of a story, or of life, or of a discourse.

Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.

A related sequence of instructions or actions within a program that runs at least in part independent of other actions within the program; - such threads are capable of being executed only in oprating systems permittnig multitasking.

A sequence of messages posted to an on-line newsgroup or discussion group, dealing with the same topic; - messages in such a thread typically refer to a previous posting, thus allowing their identification as part of the thread. Some news-reading programs allow a user to follow a single such thread independent of the other postings to that newsgroup.

To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.

To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

Any long object resembling a thin line;

The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together;

The raised helical rib going around a screw

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course;

Pass a thread through;

Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string;

Pass through or into;

Thread on or as if on a string;